[TheForge] Re painting machinery was : OT Test

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Kevin D wrote:

>Hmm, maybe no blacksmithing?  Or, more likely, the weather's too damn nice!
>FINALLY!
>
>Or Jerry (Lefty) is typing his manuscript one
>handed...hunt...peck...hunt...peck......
>
>BTW, I really liked your website, hadn't visited it in a while.  Your fish
>on wheels is a hoot, but I'd for sure spend $500 on the fish lamp before I'd
>spend $300 on a garden folly... OK, I'll ammend that to, unless my wife went
>nuts over it, but not likely then unless out of guilt for buying myself some
>hammer, lathe, gun.....
>
>Speaking of which, I bought some machinery last year that has been sitting
>in the shop waiting (house addition/remodeling started about the same time
>and will never end) for me to frame in an insulated room that I can keep at
>some level of climate control.  So this old lathe and mill now has 2-6"
>flakes of paint peeling off them.  I don't doubt it's got gobs of lead in
>the paint, but I've sprayed LPS3 on all the bare/working metal parts.  What
>have you all found to work for painting machinery in your zone 5-6 shop?  I
>might get motivated enough to sand blast/paint it this summer.
>
>Kevin Donahoe
>Flying Pig Forge
>Morrow, OH 45152
>flyinpig at go-concepts.com
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